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Icon. Holy Hierarch Pitirim

Creation period
1910s
Dimensions
36x30 cm
Technique
wood, tempera, oil; metal, stamping, engraving
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Icon. Holy Hierarch Pitirim
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The icon with the image of Saint Pitirim of Tambov got into the Tambov Regional Ethnography Museum in January 1986 from one of the dwellers of the town. The work was painted by an unknown iconographer in the 1910s. 
 
While working on the painting, the master covered the wooden panel with a frame made of a solid metal sheet. It has clothes, a baculus, a halo and a glow around the head of the holy hierarch, as well as the frame of the icon impressed on it. Some elements are engraved. The metal part of the icon usually symbolized the heavenly light coming from the saints depicted on it. The master cut holes in the icon frame for the face and hands. He painted these parts of the icon with tempera and oil on wood.

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Bishop Pitirim was born in 1644 or 1645 in Vyazma. His secular name was Procopius in honor of the Jerusalem ascetic Procopius Decapolitus, who was tortured for his faith and imprisoned in the eighth century.
The image of the Holy Hierarch Pitirim of Tambov
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At the age of 18, Prokopius came as a novice to the Monastery of John the Baptist in Vyazma, and at the age of 21 he took the vows under the name of Pitirim. He made replicas of icons of the miracle-workers, was a connoisseur of liturgical singing and worked hard for the welfare of the monastery. In less than 9 years Pitirim has gone from a simple novice to hegumen, Father Superior of the monastery.
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In 1682 the Tambov Diocese was opened. This territory was inhabited mainly by pagans — Mordovians and Mariys, Tatars — fierce opponents of Christianity, and communities of Old Believers. Another part of the population is fugitives and exiles. Among those who could form the backbone of the parish were Cossacks and illiterate feudal tenants owing obligation in labor and in kind who had just begun to develop the Tambov region. The diocese was on the decline and needed a leader. In 1684, Patriarch Joachim appointed Pitirim the Bishop of Tambov. 
 
One of Pitirim’s main tasks in the new post was the construction of the first stone Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour in Tambov near an almost ruined wooden church. Construction began in 1694 — in one summer the walls were erected at a height of 14 meters. The bishop himself was involved in the construction. Without waiting for the temple to be completed, Pitirim consecrated one of its side-chapels at the southern wall in honor of St. Nicholas and conducted worship services there. Four years later, the bishop died, and he was buried in that side chapel called Nikolsky. A carved tomb was erected over the resting place of the bishop.
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Construction of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour
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At the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, many miracles of healing were recorded over this tomb, and in 1914 the Synod, the supreme church organ of the Russian Empire, canonized Pitirim as a holy hierarch. That is what they called the saints, who served as bishops, were heads of separate congregations, and were righteous and active pastors for their parish people. At first such saints were honored in the local churches, but over time the most prominent ascetics began to be invoked at the church-wide level.
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Icon. Holy Hierarch Pitirim

Creation period
1910s
Dimensions
36x30 cm
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wood, tempera, oil; metal, stamping, engraving
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